Word: patients
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acquitted last April on charges of fatally drugging an eccentric lady patient who had willed him a Rolls-Royce and a chest of silverware, Dr. John Bodkin Adams last week pleaded guilty to 14 lesser charges. Among them: attempting to conceal two bottles of morphine; obstructing an officer seeking to enforce the Dangerous Drugs Act; forging other doctors' names to National Health Service prescriptions; falsely stating on three cremation certificates that he had no pecuniary interest in the patients' deaths. Total fines: ?2,400 ($6,720). Dr. Adams, 58, wrote out a check for it all, and returned...
...that the navel of the universe is in Texas, very likely in Houston itself. Like its postwar predecessors, it has doggedly opposed teaching little Houstonians anything about the United Nations. Last April it banned every textbook with even a hint of a one-world point of view, finally drove patient School Superintendent William Moreland into resigning (TIME, April 22). Last week it announced the latest phase of its crusade-a revision of the elementary-school social-studies curriculum that will keep Houston's younger generation safe from learning anything at all about three-fourths of the globe. The curriculum...
...patient, a male nurse, was only 29 when a doctor told him to take sodium bicarbonate routinely for his duodenal ulcer. He did so with a vengeance: even when he had no pain, he took 2 lbs. a week, managed to consume almost 1½ tons in 27 years, until he came to Dr. Melrose's attention. Then, in hospital because of a stroke, he was denied bicarbonate. "This at once produced a violent emotional reaction," reported Dr. Melrose, "and he became restless, aggressive and difficult to handle." The doctors decided to taper him off, gave him successively smaller...
Rosemarie is tremendously fond of Knorke, but she does not quite think of him as a baby. "He is a young gorilla patient," she says simply. She is well aware that she cannot baby him indefinitely. In ten years or so he will stand six feet tall and weigh around 400 lbs. "I wonder," she speculates, "if I can play with him then...
...Perhaps it is because the critics of suburban religion "lack insight into the nature of modern society and the group process that they would scratch out the gains of suburbia and start all over again in a comfortable model closer to their hearts' desire. But after all, the patient who is cured by group therapy may be healthier than the person who doesn't respond to individual treatment...